Resolved Unable to remove User's folder

Hi folks,

Win 7 64 bit

UserA was created on installation. Then I ran on Command Prompt;

>net user UserA /delete

and create UserB

>net user UserB password /add

There was no complain. UserB popup on login page. UserA removed

But I can't delete UserA's folder on;

\Local Disk\Users\UserA as administrator.

It always complained;
this folder is shared with other people

On Command Prompt ran;
>net share UserA /delete
This shared resource does not exist

Please help. TIA


Edit:
==

I found following file being used by another program;

c>dir C:\Users\UserA\AppData\Local|Microsoft\Media Player
....
.... CurrentDatabase_372.wmdb

But I can't delete it on Command Prompt running "del" command


B.R.
satimis

 

Resolved

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your advice.

Running "net' command to add/delete users is simple and straight forwards avoiding clicking around on the screen with mouse pointer. Although this is very old DOS command at least >15 years and without further development. It is still very powerful.

The other 2 DOS command used in conjunction with "net" command are "deltree" and "rmdir" to remove the folders/directories. They are also old commands. But non of them can be used in my case because a file inside the folder is shared by another program.

Finally I have to start Safe Mode to delete the folder manually.

B.R.
satimis

 

Hi,

What I did was on a newly installed Win7, a brand new OS without touch (not yet operated)

First I installed Win7 as guest on Sun VirturalBox, the virtual machine. During installation I have to create a user. (Say this original Win7 guest(VM) Win7-01). From Win7-01 I cloned Win7-02, Win7-03 and Win7-04, guests(VM). Each guest(VM) runs DrJava, Netbeans and Visual Basic 2010 respectively. They are IDE for testing and building Java, C++ and CSharp programs respectively.

(I'm prepared deleting Win7-04 soon because I found Mono-develop (the Open Source IDE) much better than Visual Basic. The CSharp program built on Mono-develop able to work cross-platform, i.e. the *.exe runs both on Windows and Linux, also MAC soon

Edit:-

I can add Moonlight-Mono to Mono-develop. Moonlight is an open source implementation of MS Silverlight )


I need to retain different user (different user name) on each Win7, guest(VM). So I ran 2 commands on "Command Prompt" to do the job, rather than performing;

Code:

Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts and Family Safety -> User Accounts -> Change your account name -> next window, type the new name -> Rename etc.

IIRC "regedit" can also do the job by deploying the key

Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ ....

I have been away from Windows since 2002 just coming back. Any advice on "regedit" way? TIA


B.R.
satimis